Identifying the positioning in a multiple display grid

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9547467-B1
Application number	US-201615053223-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Feb 25, 2016
Priority date	Nov 25, 2015
Publication date	Jan 17, 2017
Grant date	Jan 17, 2017

Abstract

In an approach for determining relative positioning in a multiple display grid, a processor receives positioning information from sensors operably affixed to at least a first display and a second display. A processor analyzes the positioning information to determine a relative positioning between at least the first display and the second display. A processor generates an extended display on the at least the first display and the second display, based on the analyzed positioning information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for determining relative positioning in a multiple display grid, the method comprising:
receiving, by one or more processors, positioning information from a renderer after the renderer receives the positioning information from, at least, a first sensor and a second sensor operably affixed to at least a first display, at least, a third sensor and a fourth sensor operably affixed to a second display, and, at least, a fifth sensor and a sixth sensor operably affixed to a third display, wherein the sensors include near field communication (NFC) devices, radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, Bluetooth devices, accelerometers, and gyroscopes;
analyzing, by one or more processors, the positioning information to determine a relative positioning and orientation between, at least, the first display, the second display, and the third display by creating sensor pairing associations between the first sensor and the third sensor and between the second sensor and the fifth sensor, wherein a graph is constructed, based on the sensor pairing associations, that represents the relative positioning and orientation of at least the first display, the second display, and the third display; and
generating, by one or more processors, an extended display on, at least, the first display, the second display, and the third display, based on the analyzed positioning information, wherein images on the extended display are arranged dynamically and seamlessly without user intervention.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Deluca Lisa Seacat
• Quirk Aaron J

Classifications

• H04B5/20

  characterised by the transmission technique; characterised by the transmission medium · CPC title

• H04W4/008

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G09G5/003

  Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto (specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092) · CPC title

• H04W4/005

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04B5/0031

  Electricity · mapped topic